Beijing 798 Art Zone: Field Study And Follow-up Study In The Context Of Market

This dissertation adopted fieldwork in anthropology and statistical methods in sociology as the main research methods, it focus on "Beijing 798 Art Zone" and choose it as a case for field study, try to deal with and analysis the mutual relationship between the inner zone and outside society, this study goes on in the context of globalization and market. Art Zone and Artiest Village is a special cultural phenomenon which appeared in 1990s in China. Beijing 798 Art Zone is a typical cultural art phenomenon which is grown next to the earliest painter village (Yuanmingyuan Artiest Village), it is an area where gathered by a group of professional painter at the very first beginning, then many galleries enter into here and commercial facer affected this area, these factors lead to artiest to leave this area, they move to 798 Zone, so it gradually became to the largest contemporary art and galleries zone. As a case of field study, Beijing 798 Zone is not only with its own structure and feature, but also affected with many factors which come from domestic and foreign country in politics,culture and art market,and it's structure and function is changed with these factors. Beijing 798 Zone is not only a simple place name, but a symbolic sign with multiple meanings.The art environment of Beijing 798 Art Zone shows the state of multiple symbiosis, each factor is mutual independent and premise in this art group. This different factors are connected by the market and formed a whole art ecology environment, and became a complicated interactive chain.798 Art Zone is an area which affected by many factors, all of these affected its appearing and development,798 is the result of the interaction of these different level factors and stakeholders. In the meantime the change and difficult appeared in 798 Zone embodies the whole state and art ecology, which appeared in the period of social and cultural transformation in China. The art group in China is a kind of unique culture and art phenomenon which is appeared by social and cultural transformation in China. This group is appearing and develop with Chinese contemporary art, In a sense, the change history of Chinese art group and artist " Migration history", Actually it is a kind of history of Chinese Contemporary art-From "Underground " to "Ground", also from " Marginal " to "Mainstream" In the view of art market, the changes in 798 Zone is a progress of constructing and deconstructing in the context of market; In the context of globalization, it is a integration progress of east and west culture and art, or we can say it is a culture race.798 Zone is grown from an abandoned factory, and become a most famous contemporary art Zone in China, it features that the popular force begin to overtake early idealism period for Utopia pursuit, it begin to combined the art pursuit with contemporary social and people, and in the pursuit of its own discourse. The idea and action of "rebuild" the open and public state, which is not only feature with prominent advancement, and also feature with positive practice; This is make the early contemporary art step out of the state of "Underground" and small circle and also find a practical way for contemporary.But in the progress of development,798 is also under the double pressure from domestic and foreign country, it reflect the plight of Chinese immature art market. We must establish healthy and mature art market, then China contemporary art will be developed, and China contemporary art will have its local place in the competition.